Maryanne O’Hara is the author of the novel Cascade, which was the Boston Globe Book Club’s inaugural pick and a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award, and a story collection which was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is the former associate fiction editor of the literary journal Ploughshares, has taught creative writing at Emerson College and Clark University, and has had her writing recognized by the artist grants programs of the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the St. Botolph Club Foundation.

Little Matches is inspired by 9LivesNotes.com, a blog that Maryanne kept while her daughter Caitlin was waiting for a lung transplant. Since Caitlin’s passing, she has also been certified by the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine as an end-of-life doula, so that she may better speak to the state of end-of-life care in our culture. 

Publicity:
Nicole Dewey, Dewey Decimal Media
nicole@deweydecimalmedia.com

Maxwell Shanley, HarperOne
Maxwell.Shanley@harpercollins.com

Agent:
Stephanie Cabot
Susanna Lea Associates
646-638-1435

Direct contact:
MaryanneOHaraAuthor@gmail.com